Washing-machine



(ModeL) v P. LAWSON.

WASHING MACHINE.

N0. 321,119. Patented Julie 30, 1885.

INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, PhvimLllhograpMr. Willhlngion. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER LAWSON, OF MOLINE, ILLINOIS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 321.119, dated June 30, 1885.

Application filed May 19, 1884. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER LAWSON, of Moline, county of Rock Island, and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and Improved \Vashing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient machine for washing clothes quickly and thoroughly.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is aplan view of myimproved washing-machine, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional elevation of the same, taken on the line x m, Fig. 1.

The letter A indicates the tub for receiving the clothes and the liquid for washing them. The tub is shown round in form; but it may have any other. desired shape.

B is a shaft extending across the tub and journaled to rotate in opposite side walls of the tub.

On the shaft B is fixed the main washing cylinder or wheel 0, which consists of opposite end plates or disks, 0, fastened at the ends of a central bar or block,O which block may help the end plates support the wheel 0 on the shaft, as shown. The periphery of the washing-wheel 0 consists of a seriespreferably nine in number-of rubbing-rollers, c, which are journaled to rotate freely and independentlyin bearings made in the inner sides or faces of the end plates, 0. I make the rollers c in angular cross-sectional form,0r with a series of connecting and longitudinally-ranging plane facespreferably eight in number-which gives the rollers an octagonal form in cross-section; but the number of plane faces may vary as desired.

Beneath the wheel 0, and at each side of the tub, I- pivot at d, to suit-able bearing-blocks, e, fixed to the bottom of the tub, the arms D, which extend upward around the wheel 0 to about the horizontal center of the wheel, and are tied together by the cross board or plate E.

In the arms D is j ournaled the roller F, which or guide over which the clothes to be washed 7 are passed between the rollers F a.

Springs G, preferably of the coiled form shown, are held to and between the tub-bottom and the board E, and act to force the frame D E and its rollerF upward to carry this roller against the rollers c of the wheel Cwith the requisite force, and permit the roller F to accommodate itself to the varying thickness of the clothes or fabricsbeing passedbetween the rollers F 0.

At H is shown a rubbing board or apron, which is hinged upon pivots h at opposite sides of the tub A,and may be swung on the pivots either up or down, as shown in full and dotted lines, respectively, in Fig. 2, in either of which positions the board H may be used as a rubbing-board on which to soap the clothes.

I is a heavy balance-wheel fixed on one end of the wash-wheel shaft 13, to give steadiness of motion to the wheel when it is rotated by a suitable crank or handle, J, fixed on the opposite end of the shaft. The board E may have cross cleats or barsf fixed at each end and on the upper side, to prevent sidewise spread of the clothes beyond the ends of the rollers F c by acting as guides to the clothes as they pass into the machine. I

The operation is as follows: The tub having been supplied with water and soap or other cleansing liquid,'the clothes to be washed are held by the left hand and passed over the board E in betweenthe rollers F 0, while the crank J is turned by the right hand toward the operator, which draws the clothes quite fully forward into the tub, whereupon the clothes are pulled back again by the left hand, and are then carried forward again by the rollers when the backward pull on the clothes ceases, and these alternate backward and forward movements of the clothes and the rubbing action of the rollers between which they pass act quickly and thoroughly to remove the dirt from the clothes. The rollers F c revolve freely as the clothes are drawn backward or carried for- ICO ward, so that there is no tearing action on the independently-rotating and plane-sided or anclothes. gular rollers c, of the curved arms D, pivoted If desired, the machine may be operated by at d to the bottom of the tub, and connected I 5 reverse motions of the crankJ and Wash-wheel together by board E, the pressure-roller F, 5 to carry the clothesbaek and forth between the journaled in the said frame, and the springs G opposing rollers, as will readily be understood. I between the free end of the frame and the bot- Having thus described my invention, What tom of the tub, substantially as herein shown I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letand described.

tars Patent, is- PETER LAWSON. 10 In aWashing-machine, the combinatiomwith WVitnesses:

the tub A and the washing-wheel O, journaled OLOF HULT,

in the tub, and having its periphery formed of OTTO JOHNSON. 

